Are Muslim immigrants subjected to targeted opposition (i.e., Islamophobia) on their pathway to US citizenship? Using a list experiment and a representative sample of the US population, we compare explicit and implicit opposition to Muslim and Christian immigrants. We find that Muslim immigrants, relative to Christian immigrants, experience greater explicit resistance. However, when social desi...

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An estimated 10 14 microbes live on our mucosal surfaces, exceeding by far the number of cells in our body (approximately 10). Survival depends on our ability to recognize, wall off, and eliminate unwanted intruders. The doubling of life expectancy over the last century has created an internal burden of degenerating tissue, cellular debris, and malignant transformation, adding considerable stre...

This paper proposes the integration of the generalized opposition based learning into compact Differential Evolution frameworks and tests its impact on the algorithmic performance. Opposition-based learning is a technique which has been applied, in several circumstances, to enhance the performance of Differential Evolution. It consists of the generation of additional points by means of a hyper-...

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are generally considered to be detrimental for health because of their association with a wide variety of diseases including, but not limited to type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular complications and cancer; as such, they have been considered to be undesirable by‐products of aerobic metabolism. This concept has led to the widespread use of antioxidant food supplements t...